Digital game downloads.....

Hi,

I have bought 3 games since getting my Xbox One. I did a factory restore on my Xbox One and signed in using a different gamertag and I noticed the games I bought with a different gamertag were available to download. Does anyone know if that means your purchase
history is attached to your machine instead of your live account? If I ever sold my Xbox One would the new owner be able to download the games I had bought?

cheers

Steve

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Digital Downloaded Games

Recently sold my XONE to fund my PS4, A family member ended up purchasing the console & requested it was formatted which obviously wiped everything off, Ive had a text today saying they was able to redownload all games that was previously on there along with DLC ghost season pass for example.

Just a heads up games must be linked with the console rather than the GT.

 

Digital game downloads

what would they have to gain? um how about the fact that people would be buying new games vs used games from retailers that cut out the developers completely. Also if a game is that good people wouldnt trade it in within the first 3 months...so you're saying
its ok for a company to mislead you, misrepresent their product and then stick it to you forever with no consumer rights. Eh, corporate america needs to fall...this kind of thinking is so anti-humanity/anti-american. These digital rights only benefit the
corporations and the greedy pigs that run them. How can anybody be for that? Only the ignorant and naive...whats in it for the developers? They would actually see my $$ and have the what used to be good feeling of giving the consumers the options they deserve
and have a right to. Again if the games good people dont trade it in...if its generic and only last for a month why should they not have the option to get some of their money back? Its the developers fault if it doesnt last. If consumer rights on digital
doesnt change soon i'm going to stop buying new games and only buy used to where developers dont see the money at all..hope alot of others do aswell so the developers/publishers either switch over and give paying customers what they want or fail miserably
and go bankrupt.

 

Hi there,

The purchase history is attached to the account.

After you did the reset, did you confirm that it is the home console for the purchasing account so the games are open to all users on the account?

By available for download, do you mean you have the option to download them without purchasing?

If you launch a game an account did not purchase, and is not the home console where the game is located, the Xbox will put up a pop-up asking if that account is the owner of the game. Are you not seeing that pop-up?

Let us know so we can better assist.

 

Hi,

When I bought Call of Duty from the store I used the gamertag I use at the moment. I did a factory restore on my machine and when it restarted I signed in with a gamertag I had a few years ago.

To my surprise I saw Call of Duty in the purchase history so I though I would try and download it as the machine doesn't have the gamertag set up on it that I bought the game with.

I have been happily playing it on my old gamertag without any issues.... I've even been getting achievements!!!

I hope this help.

Thanks,

Steve.